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Towards Win-Win Policies for Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Switzerland

The first Swiss national dietary survey (MenuCH) was used to screen disease burdens and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of Swiss diets (vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, slimming), with a focus on gender and education level. The Health Nutritional Index (HENI ...

MDPI2020

Material constraints related to storage of future European renewable electricity surpluses with CO2 methanation

Vincent Moreau, Suren Erkman

The main challenges associated with a growing production of renewable electricity are intermittency and dispersion. Intermittency generates spikes in production, which need to be curtailed when exceeding consumption. Dispersion means electricity has to be ...

Elsevier2016

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The Symbiotic Districts research project examines dimensions influencing energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood scale by integrating parameters related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility, food, goods and services. Transposing industrial ecology tools ...

2016

Symbiotic Districts : Innovative design strategies for local energy production and resource self-reliance at neighborhood scale

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The project Symbiotic Districts aims to develop a new design and calculation methodology for creating symbiotic districts in the Swiss urban context. The research examines the scientific, technical, urban development and architectural dimensions that influ ...

2013

Quartiers symbiotiques. Stratégies innovantes pour favoriser l’autonomie énergétique à l’échelle du quartier par l’intégration des enjeux relatifs aux bâtiments, aux infrastructures, à la mobilité et à l’alimentation

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

Lausanne, EPFL/UNIL, Final Report - Collaborative Research on Science and Society (CROSS), December 2014 ...

2014

Building on planet Mars student project

Alain Nussbaumer, Peter Zurbrügg, Suren Erkman, Théodore Besson

Taylor & Francis Group2013